Quote Originally Posted by RaideDuku View Post
Final Fantasy XI, hard?



Even in the "glory days", Final Fantasy XI was never hard. It was a giant time sink. Time sink does not equal difficulty. Don't get me wrong, I loved the game, and it was one of my best MMO experiences -at the time-, but I'm not going to let nostalgia glasses sugarcoat what the game was.
Anything is essentially a giant timesink. That argument is becoming pointless as time goes on. I highly doubt just anyone would have ever considered having teams of 3-6 RDM sub DRK so that they could chainspell stun Dynamis Lord to prevent his AoE to be a working strategy (it was a concept that was never used before). To be honest, figuring out strategies to fights without any sort of clue to them is a lot more difficult of a task than simply following a pre-determined avoid-the-bad pattern. Just like anything difficult, once you figure it out, that difficulty is practically gone. I agree that a lot of FFXI was a timesink, but so is practically everything. ANYTHING in life can be seen as a timesink.